That Piece Of Trash Was Me - Chapter 29

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Chapter 29

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Schulz Schmidt.

Silver-gray hair. Bright blue eyes.

A typical specimen of an intellectual cold handsome man. His neat but sharp-angled clothing, the monocle tucked at his chest.

“I’ll speak directly to the point, Miss Tulia.”

Schulz Schmidt continued speaking.

“I want to make a deal.”

“Yes, yes. Let’s do it.”

“…You’re agreeing without even hearing what it is?”

“A true teacher doesn’t ask their student for strange deals. Pneuma is a true scholar, isn’t he?”

“You speak very well. The rumors about you being holed up in the library don’t seem to be false.”

“Of course. You saw my test scores, didn’t you?”

Schulz Schmidt chuckled softly.

Right.

This is why I knew Schulz Schmidt would come looking for me.

Even when playing as Coriko in , Schulz Schmidt’s help was absolutely necessary to meet the Crown Prince.

‘Though the progression is a bit different from the game content.’

Coriko first enters the Grand Ducal House at seventeen.

Under the title of ‘prospective daughter-in-law.’

By then, Schulz Schmidt is already absent from the Grand Duchy.

But if Coriko makes a good impression on the Grand Duke, that is, if she raises the Grand Duke’s affection level significantly, surprisingly an option to take the direct lineage test appears.

If she gets the highest score on that test, an intrigued Schulz Schmidt comes to the Grand Duchy to see Coriko.

By then, Schulz Schmidt is already.

‘The Crown Prince’s tutor.’

Schulz Schmidt isn’t the Crown Prince’s tutor yet, but he will be eventually.

But waiting until then was problematic because Tulia is the Twin Older Brothers’ real sister.

Tulia’s Twin Older Brothers and.

Also Coriko’s Male Leads.

‘They’re coming to the Grand Duke’s birthday celebration soon.’

If I meet the twins first and the Crown Prince option doesn’t activate, my Quest would end in failure.

‘Which means I’d die…’

So I earned Schulz Schmidt’s affection with a perfect score and obtained it with Glory.

So far, my predictions seemed to be flowing smoothly like the game…

But they say there are variables everywhere, don’t they?

I really didn’t expect Schulz Schmidt to pull out a piece of paper from his chest.

The fact that this was an event I’d never seen in made me even more flustered.

“It looks incredibly old…”

“Yes. But it has preservation magic on it, so it’s fine.”

“Preservation magic.”

‘That’s an incredibly expensive magic.’

Pneuma was roughly equivalent to a prestigious university professor in modern times.

But preservation magic was so expensive that even such a salary couldn’t cover it.

No wonder his clothing, though neat, seemed rather modest – he must have scraped together all his salary to buy preservation magic.

To preserve this single piece of paper forever.

I took the paper for now.

“It’s in Ancient Language?”

“Yes. Can you read it?”

‘Hmm.’

Apart from the Ancient Language I became familiar with from solving problems in , I don’t know it that perfectly either.

After staring intently at the paper, I opened my mouth.

“I can’t read it all perfectly. No, I think I can only stumble through about the first line.”

“Even that would be good!”

It was an uncharacteristically desperate appearance for Schulz Schmidt. He seemed urgent too.

‘…So this is what it feels like when a cold handsome man is desperate?’

It’s better than I thought…?

Fortunately, the first line was a sentence I could properly understand from beginning to end, so I read it aloud.

“To my part that has… separated from… my body.”

“…Excuse me?”

“That’s what the first line says?”

“…That’s impossible. Didn’t you… misinterpret it?”

I blinked several times. Then I looked at the paper again as if I might bore a hole through it.

“To my part that has separated from my body.”

“…”

“That’s right though?”

“…”

“Schuls Pneuma? Professor?”

“That… doesn’t make sense… It can’t be written like that…”

‘What’s wrong with him now.’

Schulz Schmidt was a particularly cold character even in .

Though Coriko was a girl of light who could even conquer that ice Grand Duke, Assis Grand Duke Frazier, Schulz Schmidt alone never had a smiling illustration in any route.

Just a slight smile at most?

That meant he showed very little emotional expression.

In a way, he was a more emotionless man than Assis Grand Duke Frazier, who had an ending where he was happy to gain a ‘new granddaughter.’

That was Schulz Schmidt.

But why is he so shaken now?

I’ve become someone who can’t stand not knowing things anymore. Especially since I have cheat keys.

I immediately opened Schulz Schmidt’s profile.

[System: Profile]

Schulz Schmidt (26 years old)

-Youngest Pneuma in history.

I roughly skipped the middle profile since I already knew all that, and as always, I looked down to the part I was most curious about.

-The secret he’s hiding is…(More)

I clicked ‘More’ with my gaze without hesitation. I was curious about what that letter was and why he was so shaken.

But then.

(!Warning: 200 coins required.)

(!Warning: Insufficient coins to activate ‘More’.)

‘What the hell?!’

I almost let out a scream.

My eyes widened like chestnuts, but the text that appeared before me didn’t disappear.

‘No way. You’ve been providing “See More” just fine until now, and suddenly you want me to pay coins?!’

Was it just a free trial or what?

Good grief. I was truly flabbergasted. I tried frantically clicking “See More” several times, but.

(!Warning: 200 coins required.)

(!Warning: Insufficient coins to activate ‘See More’.)

(!Warning: 200 coins required.)

(!Warning: Insufficient coins to activate ‘See More’.)

(!Warning: 200 coins required.)

(!Warning: Insufficient coins to activate ‘See More’.)

‘This damn bastard…’

If I could, I wanted to grab that message and status window and snap them in half.

Since I was in front of Schulz Schmidt, I couldn’t grind my teeth openly and had to suppress my anger internally…

“I apologize, Miss Tulia. I suddenly got lost in my own thoughts while you were right in front of me.”

“No, it’s fine…”

“…So you can stop doing that now.”

“…”

It seems I was unconsciously grinding my teeth in reality.

“Hah.”

A sigh escaped me at the same time.

“So what is this?”

I asked, deciding to resolve the immediate question first.

“I would like you to keep this secret.”

A completely unexpected answer came back.

I blinked and replied.

“I only have my friend Adel.”

“Miss Adel, you mean?”

“My head maid. You saw her earlier.”

Schulz Schmidt chuckled softly.

“Yes. She seemed strong and gentle.”

“Right? She’s one of my lucky breaks.”

“But in my opinion, Miss, once you debut in Imperial High Society, the position of society’s jewel will surely belong to Miss Tulia.”

‘He must not know yet that Tulia is the troublemaker of Frazier Domain.’

For now, I smiled. I knew well that position always belonged to Coriko anyway.

“That letter was left by my father just before he passed away.”

“Ah… Pardon?”

I had been responding with a somber attitude, but unconsciously raised my tone in question.

‘Schulz Schmidt’s father?’

As could be guessed from his refined etiquette and cold demeanor, Schulz Schmidt was of noble birth.

‘And I saw while playing the game.’

Schulz Schmidt really didn’t get along with his father.

So much so that he didn’t even attend the funeral, telling Coriko about it with his characteristic cold expression.

‘The setting was that Schulz Schmidt’s father, Lord Schmidt, was one of the greatest geniuses of his time.’

A kind of overpowered character who achieved various merits as a knight while also being skilled in Ancient Language. Of course, he was also enrolled in the White Tower and received the title of ‘Pneuma’.

But strangely, Lord Schmidt raised all his children to be knights only.

The only child who rebelled against this was Schulz Schmidt.

He had a big fight with his father, entered the White Tower, and proudly earned the position of youngest Pneuma.

‘But since his father was such an outstanding genius, Schulz Schmidt was said to fall short in Ancient Language.’

Eventually, after the two cut ties, Schulz Schmidt lived without family.

Only Coriko, whom he later became connected with, was truly his disciple and one of his family members…

Well, was roughly about this kind of content.

“‘To my part that has separated from my body’ is a quote used in ancient times for one’s most cherished child.”

There was a faint bitterness in Schulz Schmidt’s voice.

“Since my father couldn’t have thought of me that way, he must have deliberately written this difficult ancient literary quote to test me.”

‘Is that so?’

It wasn’t a question I could give a definitive yes or no answer to.

As I made a strange expression, Schulz Schmidt spoke again.

“Miss Tulia.”

“Yes.”

“My deal is simple. Since it’s certain that you have talent in Ancient Language, please decode that letter for me.”

“That… Teacher? It might take some time…?”

“…You say it might take some time.”

“I can do it. But it will literally take some time…”

I had my tear-soaked Skill Stat.

And to achieve A-grade in the future, I had to max out all stats anyway.

The setting in was that when the Skill Stat was fully maxed, one could perfectly master all languages just by reading a book once and speak them as fluently as a native speaker.

Of course, this applied to Ancient Language as well.

The deep confusion and agitation slowly disappeared from Schulz Schmidt’s face.

“As long as you can do it, that’s enough.”

“I’ll work hard on it, Teacher. But you know.”

After requesting a copy of this Ancient Language document, I smiled very innocently and said.

“Since you mentioned this was a deal first, now you should listen to my conditions too, right?”

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